China's cosmopolitan empire
Subtitle: the Tang dynasty
By: Mark Edward Lewis.
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press; Brand: Belknap Press; Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780674033061
Subjects: China -- History -- Tang dynasty, 618-907
Other titles: Tang dynasty
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The geography of the Tang empire; title: The restored empire; title: Warlords and monopolists in late Tang China; title: Tang urban life; title: Rural society; title: Tang China and the outer world; title: Kinship; title: Religion; title: Tang writing; title: Conclusion: the tenth-century transition.